Techmeme: BuzzFeed Hires Web Video Pioneer Ze Frank (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD)

September 15, 2012, 1:40 PM

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Daniel Rubino / wpcentral:

Windows Phone 8 has officially gone gold (RTM) — Tonight we can confirm via two known sources that Windows Phone 8 has RTM'd. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, RTM stands for Release to Manufacturing (aka “going gold") and is one of the final steps in getting the software to market.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

BuzzFeed Hires Web Video Pioneer Ze Frank — Here's a good chocolate/peanut butter combination: Buzzfeed, the click-factory that has figured out Facebook and Twitter, plus Ze Frank, the guy who figured out Web video back in its infancy. — Together they're going to try to figure out modern-day YouTube.

More: Fast Company, Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, ReadWriteWeb, The New York Observer and PandoDaily

Tweets: @zefrank and @pkafka

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

LEAKED! Here's The White House's Draft Cybersecurity Executive Order — Earlier this week, we wrote about how the White House was working on an executive order to act as a “stand in” for cybersecurity legislation that has so far failed to pass Congress (CISPA passed in the House …

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Apple's timid new iPod nano sidesteps a smartwatch revolution — By all accounts, Apple's new iPhone 5 is a fine product, a line drive down the middle. It will easily sell millions and likely even break some records — the massive iPhone ecosystem alone will guarantee that.

More: Cult of Mac, Mashable! and Daring Fireball

Gerry Shih / Reuters:

Google rejects White House request to pull Mohammad film clip — (Reuters) - Google Inc rejected a request by the White House on Friday to reconsider its decision to keep online a controversial YouTube movie clip that has ignited anti-American protests in the Middle East.

More: eWeek, New York Times, AllThingsD, Betabeat, Marketing Land and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Kimber Streams / The Verge:

T-Mobile to offer nano-SIM cards for iPhone 5 in mid-October — T-Mobile will begin carrying nano-SIMs in mid-October according to a tweet from the carrier's support account and confirmation from a T-Mobile spokesperson. We've already noted T-Mobile's desire to attract customers …

More: iMore.com, BGR, GigaOM, Engadget and TmoNews

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Google Apps Says Goodbye To Internet Explorer 8, Pulls Support For the Browser — Today, the Google Apps team announced that it will no longer support Internet Explorer 8 (and lower). Thank goodness. This will affect everyone using Google Apps: businesses, educational and government institutions.

More: BetaNews, CNET, The Next Web and ZDNet

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Preliminary ruling by ITC judge clears Apple of infringement of four Samsung patents — Administrative Law Judge E. James Gildea just issued his preliminary ruling on Samsung's ITC complaint against Apple. At this stage of the investigation, four Samsung patents, including a couple of allegedly standard-essential ones, are at issue.

More: Reuters, Ars Technica, TodaysiPhone.com, SlashGear, The Next Web, Engadget, AllThingsD, BBC and Phones Review

Susan Decker / Bloomberg:

Apple Wins Patent Ruling Against Samsung at Trade Agency

More: The Register, Marketing Land and iDownloadBlog.com

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